Principal Platform Engineer – OpenShift

Job Description: Principal Platform Engineer – OpenShift

Experience 12+ years

Location : Hyderabad / Bangalore

Role Objective

As a Principal Platform Engineer – OpenShift, you will be responsible for engineering, validating, and optimizing enterprise OpenShift platforms beyond conventional operating conditions. Working within the platform engineering program, you will identify scalability boundaries, stress-test infrastructure, optimize performance, and establish engineering standards that enable the platform to support mission-critical banking workloads at exceptional scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and optimize enterprise-grade Red Hat OpenShift platforms.
• Identify scalability limits through performance, stress, and endurance testing.
• Analyze platform latency, throughput, scheduling efficiency, and cluster performance.
• Optimize NUMA-aware workload placement for maximum performance.
• Evaluate DPU/SmartNIC technologies and their integration with OpenShift networking and workloads.
• Validate platform resilience through failure-domain testing, node failures, network disruptions, and disaster recovery scenarios.
• Identify architectural exceptions and engineering limits beyond vendor reference architectures.
• Develop platform tuning standards, scalability guidelines, and operational best practices.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, storage, security, and application engineering teams.
• Drive automation using Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership for OpenShift platform architecture.

Required Skills

• 12+ years in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Cloud Engineering.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of container orchestration, Kubernetes internals, and OpenShift architecture.
• Expertise in Linux, networking, storage, and enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience with performance engineering, benchmarking, capacity planning, and scalability testing.
• Deep understanding of NUMA architecture and workload optimization.
• Knowledge of DPU/SmartNIC technologies.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and enterprise observability platforms.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Experience with highly available, mission-critical enterprise platforms.

Primary Deliverables

• OpenShift scalability benchmarks.
• Platform performance tuning standards.
• Engineering limits and architectural recommendations.
• Resilience and failure-domain validation reports.
• Enterprise platform engineering standards and best practices.